AHMM’s proposals for a 17-storey office building on top of Richard MacCormac’s Southwark Tube station have been approved.

Southwark council’s planning committee was split 6:2 on the scheme foraround 200,000sq ft of office space plus two shop units beside the station entrance on the corner of Blackfriars Road and The Cut.

The project is part of a land swap that will see a 15-storey block of flats designed by Bell Phillips built on a neighbouring council-owned estate. That scheme, where The Cut meets Hatfields, was approved less than a month ago, paving the way for this week’s decision.

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